Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team Grizzly Bear Trapping in Yellowstone

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BIOLOGISTS SET TO BEGIN GRIZZLY BEAR CAPTURES FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ON THE CUSTER GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, MONTANA.
PUBLIC REMINDED TO HEED WARNING SIGNS

As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone Ecosystem, the U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is working to inform the public that pre-baiting and scientific capture operations are once again about to begin within the northwestern portions of the Custer Gallatin National Forest, south of I-90, in Montana. Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will begin the field captures August 8 and continue through August 28. Capture operations can include a variety of activities, but all areas where work is being conducted will have major access points marked with warning signs. It is critical that all members of the public heed these signs.

Research and monitoring of the grizzly bear population is vital to ongoing recovery and management of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In order to attract bears, biologists use natural food sources such as recently road-killed deer and elk. Potential capture sites are baited with these natural foods and if indications are that grizzly bears are in the area, culvert traps or foot snares are used to capture bears. Once captured, bears are handled in accordance with strict safety and animal care protocols developed by the IGBST and approved by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Whenever bear capture activities are being conducted for scientific purposes, the area around the site will be posted with bright warning signs to inform the public of the activities occurring. Read more

Wildlife

Because Huckleberries are in Short Supply, Bear Specialists Emphasize the Importance of Securing Attractants to Prevent Conflicts

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KALISPELL—Northwest Montana is experiencing a below average huckleberry crop this year, and as natural food sources become harder for bears to find, they are increasingly moving to lower elevations in search of alternatives. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks bear conflict specialists are asking for the community’s help to reduce potential conflicts.

“We’ve responded to an unusually high number of calls this season,” said bear and lion conflict specialist, Justine Vallieres. As fall approaches and bears enter hyperphagia, a time when they actively seek out extra calories to prepare for winter, specialists expect that call volume to increase. Read more

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Sabudawn Safaris Continues as a Whitetails Unlimited National Sponsor

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Sabudawn Safaris will continue as a Whitetails Unlimited national sponsor, announced WTU President Jeff Schinkten. “Sabudawn Safaris is dedicated to quality, and their knowledgeable, experienced team excels at planning exceptional African safari experiences,” said Schinkten. “They handle travel and lodging logistics, allowing customers to focus on enjoying the hunt of a lifetime. We’re excited to continue our relationship with Sabudawn Safaris.”

Sabudawn Safaris is a full service “Safaris and Tours” operations. They specialize in coordinating travel arrangements for individuals and groups that will take care of all logistics like accommodations, transfers, air charters, touring, and all safaris for you. They are independent and can book and plan the itinerary to suit their customers’ needs. The team at Sabudawn, from the office staff, lodge staff, hunting professionals, skinners, and trackers, are all dedicated to making your hunting experience in Southern Africa a memorable one. To see all the activities there are to experience or a list of the animals you can hunt, go to sabudawnsafaris.co.za.

About Whitetails Unlimited: Since our beginning in 1982, Whitetails Unlimited has remained true to its mission and has made great strides in the field of conservation. Thanks to more than 475 chapters, 120,000-plus members, chapter volunteers, and corporate sponsors, Whitetails Unlimited has earned the reputation of being the nation’s premier organization dedicating its resources to the betterment of the white-tailed deer and its environment. Our mission is to raise funds in support of educational programs, wildlife habitat enhancement and acquisition, and preservation of the shooting sports and hunting tradition for future generations. To date, Whitetails Unlimited has expended more than $159.3 million on program services and activities that continue to enhance, and ultimately foster, our mission. Stay connected with us: Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, WTU Website

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Guns.com and Off Grid Suppressors Launch Exclusive $100 Instant Rebate

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First-Of-Its-Kind Promotion Helps Offset Cost of NFA Transfer Fees for Gun Owners Nationwide

Burnsville, MN – Guns.com launches Off Grid Offset, an exclusive partnership with Off Grid Suppressors to offer gun owners an instant $100 rebate. Available now through August 9, the exclusive promotion automatically applies at checkout on all Off Grid Suppressors, allowing customers to save immediately without the hassle of submitting rebate forms or waiting for reimbursement. Plus, all suppressors available on Guns.com, including Off Grid, ship free. Read more

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Derya Arms Launches the Derya MAX

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Derya Arms (South Derya Corp.), a leading firearms manufacturer with expanding U.S. manufacturing operations in Jacksonville, Florida, today announced the official United States market launch of the Derya MAX, a completely new proprietary magazine-fed 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun. The MAX made its public U.S. debut at the Gun Owners of America (GOA) GOALS 2026 summit and is now in full production in small quantities at the company’s Jacksonville facility, with guns expected to be released and seen in the market beginning in September.

While select media coverage of the MAX has previously appeared from Derya’s operations in Türkiye, this announcement marks the official U.S. launch. The shotguns are now being manufactured in Jacksonville, Florida.

As the manufacturer that has produced more magazine-fed shotguns than any other company in the industry, Derya Arms brings unmatched experience to the category. Magazines have long been the number-one source of reliability issues on magazine-fed shotguns, even on high-end guns. Drawing on years of development and that deep platform knowledge, the company created an entirely new, proprietary design unlike anything else currently on the market. The result is the Derya MAX: a purpose-built shotgun engineered from the ground up for maximum performance, competitive excellence, and real-world reliability. Read more

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Mule Deer Foundation to Conduct Important Habitat Work in Colorado Thanks to Eagle Ranch HOA

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The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) is partnering with the Eagle Ranch Homeowners Association (HOA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Colorado Parks and Wildlife to implement a habitat restoration and fuels reduction project near the Eagle Ranch community just south of Eagle, Colorado. Through targeted habitat restoration, this partnership can address long-term challenges of habitat loss and human development on wildlife and better support the local deer herd’s long-term health and population stability.

“We are grateful that the Eagle Ranch HOA supports this proactive effort to foster a healthier landscape for mule deer and wildlife,” said Greg Sheehan, President and CEO of the Mule Deer Foundation. “When habitat projects can also shield rural communities from severe wildfire, it ensures these landscapes will continue to provide important resources for mule deer, wildlife, and the communities who call this area home.”

Community residents live in a wildland-urban interface area wherein human development borders wildland vegetation. The HOA is providing $111,000 for MDF to remove encroaching pinyon-juniper woodland stands on nearby slopes that function as big-game winter range. This will open important sagebrush habitat that provides cover and forage for mule deer and other sagebrush dependent species, while also mitigating wildfire risk to homes and structures in the Eagle River Valley.

“The original Developers of Eagle Ranch were extremely forward thinking in establishing a Wildlife Protection Fund to fund projects that help mitigate some of the impacts on wildlife caused by the Eagle Ranch development. The Eagle Ranch Wildlife Protection Committee of the Eagle Ranch Association approved a significant contribution to the funding of this important wildlife habitat enhancement project,” said the Eagle Ranch Executive Board Members in a statement.

The area surrounding the Eagle Ranch community includes a mixture of public and private lands, with the project area encompassing an important winter range and migration corridor for the Brush Creek Mule Deer Herd. This partnership demonstrates how public and private entities can work together to deliver lasting ecological and community benefits, ensuring habitat improvements for wildlife and residents can persist for decades. Read more

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Leupold Adds Hornady 4DOF Ballistic Calculator, Precision Cut Archery Software to RX-5000 Handheld Rangefinder

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Leupold & Stevens, Inc., provider of the world’s most rugged, lightweight, and clear sport optics, is pleased to announce the addition of two industry-leading ballistic solvers to its RX-5000 rangefinder: Hornady’s 4DOF® ballistic calculator for rifle shooters and the Precision Cut Archery ballistic calculator for bowhunters and competitive archers.

The new features can be downloaded for free through the Leupold Control App and installed upon new and existing RX-5000 units through a firmware update upon establishing a Bluetooth connection with your mobile device.

“When we launched the BX-6 Range HD early in 2026, we specifically selected Hornady’s 4DOF® calculator and the Precision Cut Archery software for their incredible performance,” said Eric Overstreet, Technology Product Line Manager for Leupold & Stevens, Inc. “Thanks to the capabilities of the Leupold Control App, we’re now able to bring that same performance to our handheld RX-5000, making industry-leading technology available to even more hunters and shooters worldwide.

The RX-5000 is the first handheld rangefinder to utilize the Hornady 4DOF® ballistic calculator, which provides a modern ballistic solver that models how your specific bullet behaves in flight, delivering dependable, highly accurate trajectory solutions at long range. Unlike traditional ballistic calculators that rely on a ballistic coefficient, 4DOF® uses real, Doppler-measured bullet data to account for bullet drag. Those drag coefficients are then paired with the exact physical model of your specific projectile. By matching drag coefficient and the physical model of the bullet, 4DOF® can accurately predict the dynamic responses of your bullet in flight, providing more reliable predictions for drop and wind drift, helping shooters make confident adjustments when precision matters most.

The RX-5000 also offers Leupold’s existing CDS ballistic technology, which provides angle-compensated shoot-to distances for rifle hunters and pairs with Leupold’s Custom Dial System (CDS) compatible riflescopes for fast, accurate solutions to typical hunting distance. Though the Leupold Control App, the RX-5000’s CDS setting offers 25 selectable ballistics groups that account for your preferred cartridge, helping you dial in the exact range of your target. A basic Line of Sight (LOS) mode is also available.

Archery hunters and competition shooters are taken care of, too, with the inclusion of the new Precision Cut Archery Software. PCA uses your arrow weight, arrow velocity, peep height, and environmentals to calculate extremely accurate archery ballistic solutions. By including your atmospheric conditions when sighting in and setting up sight tapes Leupold provides accurate shoot-to distances at all elevations and angles, corrected to your sight-in tape.

“PCA changes the game by reducing re-zero requirements when your archery camp changes elevation,” said Eric Overstreet, Technology Product Line Manager for Leupold & Stevens, Inc. “It will provide ranges compensated to your sight tape, regardless of location or atmospheric conditions. It’s the equivalent of real-time ballistics for archers.”

The RX-5000’s ballistic software is managed through the unit’s Bluetooth connection with the Leupold Control App. The Leupold Control app transforms your mobile device into a powerful command center for select Leupold rangefinding products. With it, you’ll dominate the field as you customize modes and settings, adjust your ballistic profiles, capture accurate ranges, and precisely drop GPS waypoints—all with just a few quick taps.

Available for free download in the Apple Store and for Android on Google Play, the Leupold Control App allows you to customize your RX-5000 experience. Choose your ballistics, your rangefinding display settings, your reticle, and more.

Through the Leupold Control App, the RX-5000 has always provided access to Leupold’s Precision GPS Pinning system. Using your phone’s GPS, pinning allows you to remotely drop location pins on digital mapping platforms like onX Hunt, HuntStand, Google Maps, and Apple Maps, ATAK, and additional mapping services, turning every range into a recorded waypoint.

The RX-5000 will accurately range in the snow, rain, and fog, thanks to its Last Target mode. It provides exceptionally bright and clear images with a high light transmission red AMOLED display and makes long-range target acquisition fast and easy with its 8x magnification. When mounted on a tripod and set to Long Range mode, the RX-5000 can reach distances past 5,000 yards. It will also quickly range trees out to 3,000 yards, and deer-sized game at 2,000 yards. Read more

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Hook & Barrel Magazine Teams Up with Beretta to Give Away a Beretta M9A4 Overlanding 9mm Pistol

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Hook & Barrel Magazine®, The Lifestyle Magazine for Modern Outdoorsmen™, is excited to announce its latest exclusive giveaway sweepstakes, giving one lucky winner a Beretta M9A4 Overlanding 9mm pistol in the distinctive Clay finish. Built on Beretta’s battle-proven M9A4 platform, the Overlanding Series features rugged, adventure-inspired finishes and the reliability, accuracy, and durability trusted by shooters around the world.

“The Beretta M9A4 Overlanding Series is designed for those who are always ready for the next adventure,” said Nino Bosaz, Hook & Barrel’s Editorial Director. “We’re thrilled to partner with Beretta to give one Hook & Barrel reader the chance to own this incredible pistol.”

Entering the sweepstakes is simple: readers can visit the Hook & Barrel website and follow the instructions on the giveaway page, where full terms and conditions are also available. The sweepstakes is open now and runs through September 3, 2026, and the winner will be notified after the sweepstakes concludes. Read more

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New Film Showcases Groundbreaking Leopard Research Across Africa

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One of Africa’s most ambitious leopard research efforts is revealing critical insights that could shape the species’ future

The Safari Club International Foundation’s African Leopard Research Project is entering an exciting new phase by expanding fieldwork into South Africa following the successful completion of its groundbreaking national leopard survey in Botswana.

Over the past three years, SCIF’s research team conducted one of the most comprehensive leopard surveys ever undertaken, deploying more than 1,000 camera-trap stations across approximately 12,000 km². With 1,424 leopard detections which resulted in 427 individual leopards identified, this SCIF project is providing the first robust, science-based estimates of leopard populations across multiple land-uses in Botswana.

These findings are already informing conservation policy. The data have helped the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks develop a 10-year Leopard Management Plan submitted to CITES in support of the country’s leopard export quota, demonstrating how rigorous science can guide sustainable wildlife management.

Building on this success, the project is now expanding into South Africa through a partnership with the PHASA Foundation. Together, SCIF and its partners will continue generating the reliable population data needed to support evidence-based conservation, sustainable use, and the long-term future of one of Africa’s most iconic predators.

Watch how this pioneering research is helping shape the future of leopard conservation across southern Africa. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8cyatusQ-E

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Freedom: Only One Generation from Destruction

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By Joe Reynolds

“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under”  – Ronald Reagan

For years I have watched how our enemies have contributed to the erosion of our freedoms and morals – even perverting many social programs. They have contributed to the moral breakdown of society. “They” not only allow but seem to encourage hate, profanity, sex, and perversion in our schools, with no religion allowed in school (unless you’re Muslim), the absence of our American flag in classrooms with no “pledge of allegiance”, and God’s name is a forbidden subject.
The Bill of Rights – Article 1 – Protects the freedom of religion, speech, and the press, as well as the right to assemble and petition the government…. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I remember the day at my daughter’s elementary school when they removed a picture of Jesus from the entry hallway because it “might” offend a fringe group of people.
Ronald Reagan quoted – “Our coins bear the words ‘In God We Trust’. Our leaders all take the oath of office asking His help in keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a nation under God when we pledge allegiance to the flag. But now we can’t mention His name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are nondenominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the Man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas?“
Adolph Hitler proclaimed his promises for world domination and his words are slowly being fulfilled in this country by the likes of socialist and communist politicians such as Clinton, Schumer, Harris, Biden, Obama, AOC, and too many others.  They support taxing us out of our homes and Social Security by “spreading it around”, while stripping away the freedoms so many have died for in effort to protect Americans.
The Bill of Rights is slowly being eroded along with our Constitution. We now have some of the most “anti gun” leaders in our history – those who have advocated against the Second Amendment who’ve done their best to eliminate the Second Amendment entirely.
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.” – Adolf Hitler.
It’s been said that it’ll never happen here, or you’re just a conspiracy theorist, or this is America where socialism/communism will never take over this country.  I’m here to tell you, it’s here and getting stronger day by day.  Certain wealthy and powerful socialist lawmakers facilitate fraud and deliver propaganda to poison the minds of our children in schools and colleges.  They liberate criminals and illegal aliens, while lying and spreading hate among the American people by perverting their oath after placing their hand upon the Bible.  Can you believe the insult/slap in the face to Americans when “they” allowed a mosque to be built at NY’s ground zero?
“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the people.’ ‘We the people’ tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the people’ are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast.  Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the people’ tell the government what it is allowed to do. ‘We the people’ are free.”- Ronald Reagan
Take the time to read the “Constitution of The United States of America”, and the “Bill of Rights”. The writers/framers somehow saw the future after witnessing their past and provided the foundation of our country with these documents.
As ratified by the States: Bill of Rights – Article II
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. In those days the “militia” was us, our ancestors, the people of our land, and were NOT hired, owned, and paid for by these socialist enemies.
Handguns and military style firearms and ammunition sales and ownership are the highest ever in our nation’s history – even in the midst of a weak economy. Concealed carry and firearms training has quadrupled since Clinton’s election for men and women alike….. “We the people” are as concerned about a “tyrannical government” as we are about crime and self defense.
When are “we” as Americans and patriots, going to stand up and proclaim “enough is enough” and take back our country from these socialist extremists? An armed patriotic American is our most powerful weapon to protect ourselves from these communist predators.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the following: “From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots; we have met the enemy and they are us!”

 

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